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Johannesburg (AFP) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Sunday that next month's BRICS summit, which Vladimir Putin has been invited to attend, will be held in-person despite an arrest warrant on the Russian leader. South Africa is the current chair of the BRICS, a grouping of heavyweights that also includes Brazil, Russia, India and China to challenge the dominant US and European-led global governance structures. "The BRICS summit is going ahead and we are finalising our discussions on the format," Ramaphosa told South African journalists on the sidelines of a conference by the ruli...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House said Tuesday it shared concerns over South Africa's relationship with Russia after lawmakers called for the longtime US partner's expulsion from a major trade pact. Four senior members of the US Congress across party lines asked whether South Africa should remain in the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA, which offers duty-free access into the world's largest economy for sub-Saharan African countries that meet democratic criteria. "We share Congress's concern about South Africa's potential security partnership with Russia," Judd Devermont, the top Wh...
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New York (AFP) - Swedish-Swiss industrial company ABB agreed to pay $315 million to settle US criminal charges that it bribed state-owned Eskom of South Africa over government contracts, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday. Two affiliates of ABB each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as part of a three-year deferred prosecution agreement, the US agency said of a settlement that was coordinated with government authorities in Switzerland, Germany and South Africa. The issue concerns a troubled project near Johannesburg with the...
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London (AFP) - King Charles III on Tuesday welcomed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to London for a milestone first state visit of his reign. Gun salutes were fired across London as Charles and Queen Consort Camilla were joined by heir to the throne Prince William and his wife Catherine to greet Ramaphosa for a ceremonial welcome at Horse Guards Parade. The monarch and Ramaphosa, both dressed in dark overcoats against the November chill, inspected the guard of honour together. The parties then travelled to Buckingham Palace in a carriage procession escorted by mounted soldiers from the...
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Washington (AFP) - South Africa's leader on Friday agreed to cooperate closely with US President Joe Biden on health, security and climate but warned against punishing African nations for maintaining ties with Russia. The Biden administration has put a new focus on Africa after being taken aback by the reluctance of some nations to condemn Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, which has triggered sweeping Western sanctions. President Cyril Ramaphosa enjoyed unusually warm treatment from Biden, who walked him back to his motorcade at the White House, weeks after Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
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Pretoria (AFP) - The United States is seeking a "true partnership" with Africa and not trying to "outdo" other world powers in vying for influence on the continent, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. Blinken outlined the US government's new Africa strategy as he visited South Africa in the first stop of a three-nation trip to the continent. The visit followed hot on the heels of an extensive African tour by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Yet Blinken said the United States did not see the region as the "latest playing field in a competition between great powers". "O...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A South Korean man who traveled around the world stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of plants to smuggle to Asia was jailed in the US on Thursday. Kim Byungsu admitted digging up $150,000 worth of Dudleya succulents from remote parks in northern California. The plant, which grows in bud-like circles and resembles an artichoke, is native to the rugged coastlines of Oregon and northern California. It is popular in East Asia, where it is used for decoration. A court in Los Angeles heard how Kim and his accomplices swiped thousands of the succulents from several s...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States praised South Africa Saturday for quickly identifying the new Covid strain called Omicron and sharing this information with the world -- a barely veiled slap at China's handling of the original outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with South Africa's international relations and cooperation minister, Naledi Pandor, and they discussed cooperation on vaccinating people in Africa against Covid-19, the State Department said. "Secretary Blinken specifically praised South Africa’s scientists for the quick identification of the...
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Washington (AFP) - Former president Donald Trump's ambassador to South Africa pushed the State Department to spend some $1 million to renovate a second residence for her that she never occupied, a report said. Lana Marks, a designer of expensive handbags who was an early member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, wanted a second official residence in Cape Town, the oceanside city often seen as more desirable than the capital Pretoria, said the report, which cited unnamed diplomats. The Diplomatic Diary of the Washington International Diplomatic Academy, which provides professional training,...
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Washington (AFP) - Iran warned the US on Tuesday against making a "strategic mistake" after President Donald Trump threatened Tehran over reports it planned to avenge the killing of top general Qasem Soleimani."We hope that they do not make a new strategic mistake and certainly in the case of any strategic mistake, they will witness Iran's decisive response," Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei told a televised news conference.Trump vowed on Monday that any attack by Iran would be met with a response "1,000 times greater in magnitude," after reports that Iran planned to avenge the killing ...
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